[Qgis-developer] DateTime field conversion for ESRI shapefile to prevent data loss

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Greetings,

It occurred to me that saving a vector layer containing DateTime fields to
an ESRI Shapefile format transforms the DateTime field into a Date field,
leading to the loss of the time data [1]. As far as I understand, this is
not a regression, just something that got onto my radar in the last week or
so.

I think what needs to happen here is for the DateTime field to be
transformed into a String field, similarly to what Nyall has committed for
Time field [2].

Does that sound like the right thing to do here? Thoughts from developers
are most welcome :)

Math

[1] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/14190
[2]
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/7dc5eac8bd6eff7e7e1a5bded6361c779e0a58ff
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